Double stub card set



Feb. 20, 1962 .1.w. KEHoE 3,022,094

DOUBLE STUB CARD SET Filed March 19, 1959 5 SheelBs-Sl'leetvlb Feb. 20, 1962 J. w. KEHoE 3,022,094

DOUBLE STUB CARD SET Filed March 19, 1959 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 1STE@ INVENTOR. JAM/s A,/ v/a5 Feb. 20, 1962 J. W. KEHOE DOUBLE STUB CARD SET 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 INVENTOR. JAA/155 x @H05 l 144477:.; f osa-Pray A ropA/yi United States PatentOr hio Filed Mar. 19, 1959, Ser. No. 860,453 4 Claims. (C1. 282-22) This invention relates to the art of manifold record devices and is particularly concerned with a new unit set, manifold record pad and the method of manufacture thereof.

The invention relates to improvements in manifolding units disclosed in my copending application Serial No. 635,848, filed January 23, 1957 entitled Snap-Out Manifolding Unit.

It has been the practice to make manifold record sets comprising a thin cardboard sheet (for tabulating machine use), one or more copy sheets and a carbon sheet for each copy sheet. IIn some instances a carbon sheet has not been required, for example when National Cash Register paper (no carbon required) and similar acting papers are used or in cases where multuse carbon is manually inserted. Various means have been proposed to facilitate the ready removal of the carbon sheets from the other sheets and pads have been provided with such means and are known as snap-out or unit sets.

Usually these means involve the use of carbon sheets shorter than the other sheets or a set of sheets with a mutilated free end so the carbon sheets could be detached and separated by grasping the ends of the pad with both hands and moving the hands apart. There are certain disadvantages in such pads. lThe dierence in length of theV sheets or the mutilation of some of them impose restrictions on the method of manufacture of the pads. For examplefwhen the carbon sheets are shorter than the other sheets, the sheets cannot be economically arranged in the pads with the grain of the paper running lengthwise of the sheet. This is a disadvantage because of the cost and also because the top or original sheet and/r copy sheets of the Hollerith card type cannot be used in such pads for their length and other physical characteristics must be held within close tolerances and such tolerances cannot be maintained when the grain of the paper runs across the sheet.

In the manufacture of paper for tabulating card stock, some of the fibers which were randomly orientated when the pulp was fed onto a dewatering screen are rearranged as the lm is formed and passed through the rollers and the fibers eventually extend lengthwise of the finished paper sheet, that is, parallel the direction of travel of the sheet through the machine during its manufacture. These bers and the arrangement thereof constitute the grain of the sheet as referred herein.

The structure of my former invention did not provide for a stub at each end of the set. The present invention incorporates a design which provides the feature of being able to extract all or portions of the completed set from its pad or book stub and have all or portions of the leaves that are extracted to be held together at its stub located at the open end of the book or pad. An advantage of such an arrangement is to provide a second entry of information on two or more sheets of the business form and/ or to provide two or more leaves that are attached together for convenience in handling. Two examples of these advantages are: (l) In an order-invoice-delivery form system in which the set (likely to be in book form) is written and all or a portion of it is extracted from the book, two copies (the delivery copy and the customers copy) that are held together by the second stub are carried by the driver who has the receiver sign this portion ice 2 of the set. The driver will then grasp the stub end with one hand and at the carbon notch location with the thumb and forenger of the other hand and by pulling apart will extract the carbon paper and stub from the two leaves. He will then give one leaf to the receiver and keep the other leaf as his record that the merchandise has been delivered. (2) In the case of a department store salesbook operation the complete setor a portion thereof, after being written, 'would be extracted from its book. All or a portion of the set that is extracted may be held together at its stub and be sent along with the merchandise to the shipping department. One leaf of the attached set can be used as the address label for the package and another can be used as a shipping department copy to prove the merchandise has been shipped. An advantage of having these two leaves attached together is for the convenience of the shipping department and to prevent the loss or confusion of the slips with other shipments. Both of these examples, and `many more, illustrate a type of business form that is now commonly used. The present invention incorporates a double stub with unique carbon extraction features working in conjunction with unique stub -perforation features which facilitate the use of these commonly known methods with a business form that has one or more of its leaves coupled with a.v

tabulating card. Y

This invention will be better understood by those skilled in the art from the following specification and the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a unit set or snap-out manifold embodying the present invention. The figure further illustrates, in the interest of clarity, a corner of the top cardboard, tabulating card sheet, and the rst carbon sheet rolled upwardly and the appearance of the underlying copy sheet. p

FIG. 2 is a composite side elevational view showing the sequential steps employed in the removal of the top'sheet and the carbon sheets from the copy sheets.

FIG. 3 is a detail plan view illustrating the scoring on the top sheet, in this example a tabulating card.

FIG. 4 is a plan View illustrating the scoring on the first carbon sheet.

IFIG. 5 is a plan view illustrating the scoring on the iirst and second copy sheets.

y1"`IG., 6Y is a plan view illustrating the scoring on the second carbon sheet.

FIG. 7 is a diagramamtic View of the operative parts of the scoring and piercing mechanisms and illustrating the manner in which the various sheets are assembled.

FIG. 8 is `a perspective view showing the sets assembled in -book form.

FIG. `9 is a plan view of a modied form illustrating the special scoring required when a tabulating card has a double stub.

FIG. l0 is `a plan view of a modified form illustrating the construction of a copy leaf that would stay in the lbook when other parts of the set are torn from the book.

lFIG. ll is a plan view illustrating construction of original or top leaf that would stay in the book when other parts of the set are torn from the book. Y

Referring rst to FIGS. 1 and 2, the unit set or pad 10 comprises an original tabulating card l11 scored to provide a stub 11a on one end thereof. The first carbon sheet 12 is illustrated in FG. 4, the sheet being scored adjacent one end thereof to provide a stub 12a which is pierced with a plurality of openings 13 for flow of glue therethrough and tongue 12b to provide an extension for gripping. The opposite end of the sheet y12 is provided with an arcuate notch 14 for thumb clearance when the carbon sheet is removed. FIG. 5 illustrates the rst and second copy sheets 15, and the scoring therefor that defines the stubs a and 15b. IFIG. 6 illustrates the plan view of the second carbon sheet 16 and the piercing and scoring that defines the stub 16a. P IG.9 illustrates the tabulat- 'Ying card when the card has a'double stub.Y This construction Yalso dictates that all Vleaves of the set-have cuts 17 at both ends and leaves that are not tabulating cards may or Y may not, :as requirements would dictate, have remote the pad is 4similarly bonded by glue applied to the stubsV 15b adjacent the holes 13 of the carbon sheet 16. The scoring 17 shown in the left hand side of the sheets 11 'and 15 is identical and comprises aligned spaced kerfs withY short transverse intersecting kerfs to provide fragile strands Y in order lto facilitate ready removal .of the sheets from their respective stubs. The copyrsheetrlS is scored with aligned kerts -19 which may likewise be readily Ysevered Y set simultaneously.

from its stub. The scoring 20 is produced with a similar cutting tool as the Vscoring for =17 and this occur's'at 32,V

`FIG. 7,' simultaneously with cutoff on the carbon sheets 12 and 16 which comprises spaced aligned kerfs that define integral sections 21 of suicient length to restrain ready removal. The sheet 16 is further provided with a Y central .semicircular opening 22 intermediate the ends of the scoring.

It will be understood from the foregoing'disclosure that each'double stub unit set or pad consists of at least an original sheet, two copy sheets and two carbon sheets with book stubs at one end and uni-t set stubs at the other end and that the book stubs of a plurality of such unit sets or pads are connected together, by any suitable means, to

Vform a book. One pad may be used for one -sales transaction and may then be removed from the book as a unit and then separated into severaleparts as desired.

More specifically the manner of using the disclosed book is substantially as follows: Y

Entries are written on the original sheet of the top unit set and are reproduced on the copy sheets. Then the book Ystub is grasped in Vone hand, the body of the unit set or pad is grasped in the other hand and the hands are moved apart, thereby partingall sheets of the unit set from the book stub. Then the unit set is separated into certain parts by grasping in one hand the ends or" the sheets which were attached to the book stub and in the other hand the unit set stub and moving the hands apart. This results in detaching the original sheet and the tirst carbon sheet Vfrom the unit set stub and leaving both copy sheets and the second carbon sheet connected togetherV in the unit set stub; 1

Other entries may then be made on the rst copy sheet and reproduced on the second copy sheet if desired. Fi

Y f n-allyv, the unit set or pad stud may be detached from the Ycopy sheets and the second carbon sheet.

I-f desired, the pads 10 may be assembled with a cover 23 thereon Vwhich is secured to the top of the left hand Vstub `(FIG. S) and folded over the opposed end of the pad and down against a portion of the top surface thereof to form a book 24. Y

The present method of the inventioniand manner of carrying it out in the production of unit sets as described I above, is illustrated diagrammatically in FIG. 7, wherein:

Rolls 25 of the top tabulating card paper, carbon sheet paper 26 and copy sheet paper 27 are disposed preferably in vertical arrangement, as shown, although other arrange- 'ments'may be used provided thatthe coils are so disposedV that the paper therefrom vmay be superimposed to form the multipleV pad or unit set of FIGS.' l and 2. Y

Thepaper is drawn ot the tive rolls continuously, simultaneously and necessarily Vlengthwise of the grain of the paper. These Vsheets are fed through suitable cutters and y*gluing mechanism, and then are brought into superposed relation where the gluing step is completed and the superimposed strips or sheets are cut into unit Sets of the desired length. A slitter unit, not shown, may be provided to divide the paper longitudinally into a plurality of unit sets of the desired width.

Y is applied to the copy strip at 30 and the strips then pass between rollers 31 to effect the bonded retention thereof.

After the superposed sheetsfare pressed together, they are partially severed by die knife 17 and completely severed by a .suitable knife 32 whichrcuts the endof the unit An important advantage of this method of manufacture is that the sheets may be run from Ythe rolls inthe direction of theV gnain fo the paper. and hence the sheets of the unit set `or pad of these sheets on machines Where Hollerith type cards are required. Another advantage is that by avoiding mutilation of the ends of the sheets of the pad and making all the sheets ofthe same length, the rate of manufacture may be quite rapid as compared Vwith con ventional methods VVwhere someY sheets are mutilated at the ends or are shorter than other sheets.

VWhat is claimed is:Y

1. A book comprising a plurality of manifold record pads, each pad comprising at leasty an original sheet, a tirst carbon sheet thereunder, a trst copy'sheet below the first carbon sheet, a second carbon sheet below said rst copy sheet and a second copy sheet below the second carbon sheet, the original, carbon and copy sheetsr being arranged with the grain Vof the paper running lengthwise thereof and being of the same length and width, the said original, carbon and copy sheetsbeing connected at one end to the other pads constituting the book, the original, carbon and copy sheets of each pad having lkerfs partly separating them into book stubs and pad stubs near the Vends thereof, the trst carbon sheet being glued'to the original and first copy sheets in the book stub, the first and secondv copy sheets and the isecond carbon sheet being glued together in the pad stub, the first carbon sheet having a tongue adjacent to the 'book 'stub and a notch in itspad stub, the second carbon sheet having a notch adjacent to the book stub, said pad being removable from the book as a'unit by completing the separation at the book stub kerfs and said pad beingseparable into separate original and rst carbon sheets and connected first and second copy sheets and the second carbon sheet. 2. A-fbook comprising a plurality'of manifold record pads, each pad comprising at least an original sheet, two carbon sheets, and twovcopy sheets, the original and the copy sheets being arranged with the grain of the paper running lengthwise thereof and being of the same length and width, the original, copy and `carbon sheets being Yconnected at one end to the other pads Yconstituting the Vbook, certain of the sheets of each'pad having spaced, aligned and intersecting kerfs partly separating them into book stubs and pad stubs atV the ends thereof, at Aleast `one of said sheets being free from said transverse kerfs at its book stub and having aV notch `at the opposite end, one carbon sheet being glued toV the original' and first copy sheets inV one of the stubs, said certain sheets being removable from the book as a unit by completing the separation at the book stub kerfs. Y 3.' A manifold record pad comprising at least an 'original sheet, a rst carbon Vsheet thereunder, a rst copy vsheet `below the rst carbon sheet, a second carbon sheet below said lirst copy sheet, and a second copy sheet ,below the said second carbon sheet, said sheets being arranged `with `the grain ofthe paper running lengthwise VV.thereof being of the same length and width and having kerfs partly separating them into book stubs and pad stubs near the ends thereof, the first carbon sheet being glued to the original and rst copy sheets in the book stub, the rst and second copy sheets and the second carbon sheet being glued together in the pad stub, the first carbon sheet having a tongue adjacent to the book stub and a notch in its pal stub, the second carbon sheet having a notch adjacent to the book stub, said pad being separable into separate original and first carbon sheets and connected tirst and second copy sheets and the second carbon sheet by completing the separation at the book stub kerfs.

4. A manifold pad comprising at least an original sheet, a carbon sheet and a copy sheet, said sheets being arranged with the grain of the paper running lengthwise thereof and all being of the same length and width, all said sheets being glued together at one end to form a stub and having kerfs partly separating the sheets from said stub, the original and copy sheets being glued together at the other end thereof to form a second stub and having kerfs partly separating said sheets from that stub, the carbon sheet having a tongue in the stub at said one end and a notch adjacent to the second stub.

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